发自法兰克福：

 --- 西格里（SGL）集团宣布他们会逐步地收购与宝马共同合资生产碳纤维公司的股份。

 --- 宝马表示，去年他们限制使用了碳纤维，转而采用了更便宜的轻量材料，比如在他们销量最大的车型中采用铝合金、钢材等材料来保持高利润率。

 --- 在周五的一份声明中，宝马提到碳纤维仍然会是他们材料清单中重要的组成部分，即使在他们出售了他们在SGL合资企业中的49%股份后，他们将来仍会继续与SGL保持合作。

 --- 两家公司也表示：这次交易不会对现有关于宝马i3、i8和7系车型的材料供应协议造成影响。宝马会继续持有其在SGL集团中约18%的股份。

 --- 碳纤维原本被认为是轻量化、节能高效车辆的未来，但现在事实证明还是太昂贵了。

 --- 近年来，好几家汽车生产商与专业公司组团联合起来推进碳纤维的生产，以期望生产更轻量、省油的汽车，或者让电池驱动的汽车航程更远。

 --- 但有个他们需要面对的事实却是：碳纤维的确是比铝合金更坚固和更轻，但是价格也更贵。

 --- 同时，SGL也说到：购买宝马在碳纤维合资公司的股份与其覆盖碳纤维价值产业链的战略相契合，这也能解释为什么这个月早些时候SGL宣布收购了合资企业Benteler复材公司的一半股份。

 --- SGL汽车碳纤维合资公司的股权进一步整合后，会使SGL在2018年的销售额增加中等两位数百万欧元的金额，利润则会增加小两位数百万欧元（扣除利息、税费、折旧及摊销成本后）。

FRANKFURT -- SGL Group said it would gradually buy BMW's stake in their joint venture that produces carbon fiber.

BMW said last year it was limiting its use of carbon fiber and turning to cheaper lightweight materials such as aluminum and steel for its biggest selling cars to keep profit margins high.

The carmaker said in a statement on Friday that carbon fiber would still remain a significant part of its material mix and that it would continue to cooperate with SGL on future projects even after selling its 49 percent stake in joint venture SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers (ACF).

The deal has no impact on existing supply agreements for the material's use in the BMW i3, the BMW i8, and the BMW 7 series, the two companies said. BMW will also hold onto its roughly 18 percent stake in SGL Group.

The material was once heralded as the future of lightweight, fuel-efficient cars, but has proved expensive.

Several carmakers teamed up with specialist companies to push advances in carbon fiber manufacturing in recent years, in a drive for lighter cars that consume less fuel or, if they are battery-powered, can drive for longer on a full charge.

But a problem they have faced is that while carbon fiber is stiffer and lighter than aluminum, it is more expensive.

SGL meanwhile said buying BMW's stake in ACF was in line with its strategy of covering every step of the carbon fiber value chain, which also prompted it to buy half of joint venture Benteler Carbon Composites in a deal announced earlier this month.

Consolidation of ACF will increase SGL's 2018 sales by a medium double-digit million euros amount and its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization by a low double-digit million euros amount.

作者：MariaSheahan 

供稿：赛奥碳纤维